Finals (semester?) over: we take this opportunity...

Monday morning was the final exam in Nur435 Psychiatric Nursing. Monday afternoon was a presentation on my Nur427 Nursing Research project. Monday evening and all day yesterday, I worked on the term paper and "journey paper" for Nur428 Management/Leadership.

Hopefully, all my nursing is over for the semester. I only needed to get about 25% of the points on my research project, so I should be okay, although the literature review and ethical/legal components that I left to my partner ended up being weighted most in the grade. There's also the possibility that I could fall on my face in Management/Leadership. The class was very disorganized, and I'm not sure what the instructions for the term paper were even after asking the instructor to clarify three different times (I ended up just using the grading rubric as an outline, which makes a piss-poor paper).

Now all I have left is a presentation for Bio416 Virology. It could go well except that we've had about a month to work on it and I have to do it all today and tomorrow morning. As the NA's would say at work, "oh shit balls..."

series

A series is a collection of related posts, sort of like a series of articles in a newspaper. It may be ongoing, or a short collection of only a few posts. When you click on a link, posts will appear in reverse-chronological order, so you need to go to the beginning if something doesn't make sense.

Books for Nurses : reviews of "extracurricular" reading I think would be good for nurses and other health care workers. These should improve understanding of medicine and health care, help improve job skills, or change the way you think about health issues. For a complete listing of media reviews, see the library tag.

The Sexy Nurse Report : series of posts juxtaposing the silly sexual images of nurses produced in the media with the unsexy reality of nursing work...

ResearchBlogging : series of posts focusing on scientific research that are cross-posted at the ResearchBlogging.org website. Also see my profile there.

Orientation & 1st Year of Nursing : series of posts relating to my entry into the nursing profession after nursing school: NCLEX exam, hospital orientation, newbe experiences on the job...

Nursing School : series of posts documenting my experience in nursing school. Most of the several hundred posts I have up are from while I was in nursing school, but this series are the ones that I wrote specifically about school while I was a student nurse.